'Continuity IRA' Claims It Killed N. Ireland Policeman
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Belfast media say an Irish Republican Army dissident group has claimed responsibility for the latest killing in Northern Ireland.
The Continuity IRA distributed a statement to Belfast journalists claiming responsibility for Monday night's fatal shooting of a police officer, 48-year-old Stephen Carroll. Police say he was shot through the head at close range as he sat in a patrol car in the religiously divided town of Craigavon.
The Continuity IRA claim follows Saturday's gun attack by another splinter group, the Real IRA, on a British Army base that killed two soldiers and wounded four other people.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}These are the first killings of British security forces in Northern Ireland since 1998, the year of the province's peace deal.